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“He’s going to be like a Muhammad Ali. He’s going to be a legend, simple as that. To be competing alongside Anderson Silva for so long, and not get to fight him would be tragic.” TUF winner, Michael Bisping, is a long-time contender in the UFC’s middleweight division. More specifically, he’s been a long-time contender...

“I’m prepared to do anything necessary to win this fight. I’ve trained everything. Obviously I have the wrestling. I feel like I have a very strong ground game that’s been really underestimated. So, I’ve been sharpening the things that I want to, that I feel like I need to. But, you know, I just really...

The seemingly unstoppable force that is “Rowdy” Ronda Rousey has dominated her division in a way rarely seen. And though she only has seven professional fights under her belt the odds are significantly in her favor. For example, when she took on Misha Tate the first time Ronda was up to an 11-1 favorite....

Leonard Garcia is well-known as one of the toughest fighters in mixed martial arts. He has fought in a number of Fight of the Night performances – most notably with Roger Huerta, Chan Sung Jung and Nam Phan – where he took and gave incredible damage for 15 minutes. Garcia credits his style of fighting...

Cole “Magrinho” Miller (20-8 MMA, 9-6 UFC) will fight in his home state of Georgia for the first time since 2006, when he takes on Sam Sicilia (12-3 MMA, 2-2 UFC) at the “UFC Fight Night 35” event on January 15, 2014. The American Top Team product, Miller, is looking to make it two straight...

All the talk about next week’s UFC 168 card involves two rematches: Anderson Silva vs. Chris Weidman, and Miesha Tate vs. Ronda Rousey. One fight that seems to have been forgotten about, but is destined for fireworks, is a heavyweight match up between two of the best in the world, Josh Barnett and Travis Browne....

Clint Hester, who competed on the 17th season of The Ultimate Fighter, will look to improve his UFC winning streak to three as he takes on UFC newcomer, and 7-0 undefeated Alaskan native Andy Enz. The Bout against these two upcoming fighters was first reported by FoxSports and then was corroborated by UFC officials. Clint...

Jim Miller is a gym rat. And for good reason. As one of the hardest-working men in the lightweight division – a suffocating grinder with a seemingly never-ending gas tank – he’s always made sure that his training routines are just as demanding as any fight he might find himself in. But now that Miller...

“I’m just confused about what happened. Most of all, I feel like I was (ripped off) from a good fight. I didn’t get to perform my best and fight the best guy in the world in front of millions of people. They don’t know how I could have performed. I know I was going to...

“I think it was very good for the women’s division, and I think it definitely needed to happen. But you couldn’t pay me $10 million to do it again. How could people possibly know who you are from a couple of clips of a video that people are seeing out of context? That’s no way...

Kelvin Gastelum, winner of The Ultimate Fighter 17, was forced out of a bout at UFC on FOX 9 with a knee injury. It is reported that he is now cleared to fight, and while Gastelum originally wanted to face Carlos Condit, he says that he’ll take Rick Story. By Christopher Murphy @MurphMMA The...

Sergio Pettis (10-0) and Alex Caceres (9-5,1 NC) have verbally agreed to a bout at bantamweight for the UFC on FOX 10 card, on Jan. 25 in Chicago. Pettis, along with being UFC lightweight champion Anthony Pettis’ younger brother, is coming into this fight undefeated, with a 10 fight win streak. Caceres or “Bruce Leeroy”,...

UFC 170 is getting two more fights added to its lineup. UFC officials announced today that welterweights Stephen Thompson and TUF winner Robery Whittaker will square off for our viewing pleasure, as well as surging bantamweights Raphael Assuncao and Francisco Rivera. UFC 170 will emanate out of the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. Headlining the card will...

A pair of middleweight matches has been added to the UFC’s March trip to London. Luke Barnatt vs. Mats Nilsson and Brit Brad Scott vs. Claudio Henrique da Silva have been booked for the event’s preliminary card. ‘UFC Fight Night London: Gustafsson vs. Manuwa’ is going down on March 8th from London’s O2 Arena. In...

A few months ago we learned that former UFC lightweight and welterweight champion, BJ Penn would be making the trip down two weight classes to face off with Frankie Edgar both in the cage and on TUF season 19 as coaches. The result seems to be a focused and motivated BJ who already looks ready...

Johny Hendricks and Robbie Lawler are set to compete at UFC 171 for the vacant welterweight title, and that doesn’t bother Hendricks one bit. “[I’m] Super-excited,” he told Ariel Helwani on “The MMA Hour”. “Who wouldn’t be? You’re sitting there and doing stuff and you find out that you’re going to fighting Dallas, your own...

a After the long-time UFC welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre decided to relinquish his title and walk away from the sport for the forseeable future, Dana White and the UFC set up a fight between Johny Hendricks and Robbie Lawler for the vacant title, which will take place at UFC 171. Hendricks went on to...

Danny Castillo made it look like he wanted nothing to do with Edson Barboza standing. Multiple takedown attempts were stuffed at the start of the fight, and this forced Castillo to try and set them up. This allowed Barboza to connect with a few leg kicks and it looked like he started to gain momentum....

Both Stout and McKenzie went right to the middle of the octagon at the start of the bout and the feeling out process was almost non-existent. Stout was taken down within seconds and McKenzie smothered him from the get-go looking for a guillotine. McKenzie has won eleven bouts by guillotine throughout his career, and Stout...

‘UFC on FOX 9: Johnson vs. Benavidez II’ goes down tonight from Sacramento, California’s Sleep Train Arena. The show, which features a flyweight title fight in the headlining slot, airs for free on FOX. If you aren’t a ticket holder for tonight’s fight card and/or cannot make the live broadcast of the event on television,...

‘UFC on FOX 9: Johnson vs. Benavidez II’ goes down tonight from Sacramento, California’s Sleep Train Arena. The show, which features a flyweight title fight in the headlining slot, airs for free on FOX. If you aren’t a ticket holder for tonight’s fight card and/or cannot make the live broadcast of the event on television,...

When you type “MMA women” into Google’s search engine, you get a fairly accurate representation of societies outlook on the fairer sex in the world of combat sports. “The 12 Hottest Women in MMA“… “Brutal Women’s MMA Knockout!”… “The Pound-For-Pound best Women in MMA Today” and “Sexiest arms in Women’s MMA” are just some of the headlines you’ll...

Female bantamweight contender Cat Zingano should be preparing for her title shot against Ronda Rousey right now. Instead, the UFC’s true number one contender is out on the sidelines rehabbing a knee injury that forced her out of her TUF coaching gig and title shot. However, good news on the Zingano front has now come...

After months and months of figuring out how to tackle a proper format for an article like this, we here at BJPENN.COM are excited to welcome you to the first edition of ‘Quick Hits’. Inspired by roundtable discussions and television shows like ESPN’s Around the Horn, ‘Quick Hits’ will tackle some of the biggest and...

Coming off a much-needed win, former UFC lightweight title challenger, Nate Diaz is getting his fair share of challenges these days. The Stockton based fighter last saw action at the TUF 18 Finale event where he easily dispatched former rival Gray Maynard via KO in the first round of action. Now back in the mix,...

Yesterday we learned that the UFC has put together an all-star cast of 115 pound female fighters. The world’s top 11 strawweights have been plucked from InvictaFC and will all compete in the 20th season of the Ultimate Fighter. The winner of TUF 20 will serve as the inaugural UFC strawweight champion of the world....

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